Outer membranes of a lipopolysaccharide-protein complex (LPS-17 kDa protein) as chemical tularemia vaccines

FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 227-233

  Khlebnikov, Valentin S ^a   Golovliov, Igor R ^a   Kulevatsky, Dmitrij P ^a   Tokhtamysheva, Natalia V ^a   Averin, Sergej F ^a   Zhemchugov, Vladislav E ^a   Pchelintsev, Sergej Yu ^a   Afanasiev, Stanislav S ^a   Shcherbakov, Grigorij Ya ^a  

^a Institute of Engineering Immunology   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Francisella tularensis; LPS protein complex; Outer membrane

Indexed keywords

LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; TULAREMIA VACCINE; VACCINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BABOON; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; GUINEA PIG; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; TULAREMIA; VACCINATION; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0029881858     PISSN: 09288244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0928-8244(95)00109-3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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